Several cars were stranded early Friday morning when rainfall led to flooding in a coastal Wilmington neighborhood.
Tow trucks were dispatched to remove the car from floodwaters near Harry Bridges Boulevard and Alameda Street. The intersection is part of a detour route due to the Vincent Thomas Bridge construction closure in the harbor area.
It was not immediately clear when the section of road will reopen. County Supervisor Janice Hahn issued a statement calling on Caltrans to designate an alternate detour route.
“We have cars getting trapped in floodwater on Harry Bridges and Alameda, and this is only going to get worse with more rain expected this week,” Hahn said. “City and county crews are working to pump out the water, but we cannot keep sending commuters through a route that is flooding. I am asking Caltrans to identify an alternate detour that avoids Harry Bridges and Alameda until we can find a long-term solution.”
The bridge isshut down to traffic for 16 months during Caltrans’ $750 million project to replace the bridge deck. It is expected to reopen in March 2028, about four months before the start of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Drivers are being detoured primarily along the 110 and 710 freeways, State Route 103 and Harry Bridges Boulevard.
Rain arrived in Los Angeles early Friday and was expected to continue at times through Sunday as two Pacific storms enter the region. Rainfall rates Friday morning were generally less than a quarter-inch per hour with higher rates in some areas.
Showers were expected to taper off Friday afternoon. A second round of more widespread rain is expected Friday night and continue into early Saturday. Most areas are expected to receive less than an inch of rain from the two systems combined.
Another round of rainfall is in the Sunday night forecast. More rain is expected through Tuesday.